After reading Act 1 of Twelfth Night, I have expanded my knowledge on both writing skill and the attitude towards different things that will come across during lifetime.

In writing skils, I have learnt some figures of speech which can embellish my writing and the message that I am trying to explain.

Firstly, the poetic use of language is characterized by imagery, which gave special visions to an ordinary speech, at the same time, the original meaning or message is remained. Imagery can be expressed by the using of metaphor or simile.

Simile is a comparison with other objects. Frequently, similes are marked by using the words like or as. In scene I, line 4-6, "that strain again! It had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound that breathes upon a bank of violets,' the reapeating of same piece of music which can feed the duke's passion, it is directly comparing with the breathing of those spring violets, both of them can fulfill the needs of the duke, and the duke will not abandon the excess supply of them.

English: Scene from "Twelfth Night," Act III IV, w...

A Scene from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare:...

Frederick Richard Pickersgill painting of Orsino a...

Metaphor is a comparison which is only suggested, not made directly. Words used metaphorically refer at once to 2 or more different things, usually recalled together in a moment of strong feeling. In scene I, line 1-3. Orsino said, ' if music be the food of love, play on ; give me excess of it. Here, Orsino is lovesick, he thinks that if his love to Olivia comes to excess, he will then be sickened, and the love will came to an end.

However, there is not too much imagery used in this play, partly because so much of it is in prose, but imagery is...

Citation styles:

What I have learnt after reading "Twelfth Night" Act 1 by Shakespeare. (2006, August 21). In WriteWork.com. Retrieved 14:55, March 19, 2018, from http://www.writework.com/essay/have-learnt-after-reading-twelfth-night-act-1-shakespeare

More Shakespeare essays:

... piece of work,' and Ross says 'is't known who did this more than bloody deed?', they are both inquiring as to who performed the treacherous acts upon Duncan. When Macbeth is speaking about Malcolm and Donalbain, he refers to ...

... of Cawdor without any extraneous effort). A wife has a large influence on her husband's thinking. Lady MacBeth tries to persuade MacBeth to murder Duncan. Throughout Act I, scene 5, there are many speeches in which she tries to convince him. However, the monologue most relevant to ...

... things. (1) to beware Macduff, (2) not to fear any man born of women, (3) that he will not die unless Birnam Wood moves towards Dunsaine Castle. Macbeth is later informed that Macduff has gone to England, so he then plans to kill all of ...

... one dies. He is not positive of an afterlife, therefore he doesn't have the courage to end his ... to kill the king or was it madness? Hamlet 's character will be illuminated by explaining both soliloquies and finally Hamlet himself. 'To be, or not to be, that is the question,' (Beaty, 1348) is one of ...